Norm Coleman wouldn’t dare mess with him!!

Thanks so much PW.

There’s a story about Alan, sorry I don’t have a link. His hometown, Canton as you mentioned, has a history of a police force that has strong white-supremacist tendencies. It is also the home of the Pro-football Hall of Fame. The Canton police pulled his family over, as they were driving to his induction ceremony into the Hall of Fame. As far as the Canton police were concerned, the streets around the Hall of Fame were reserved for people who are 100% European American. IIRC, Alan had to bail most of his family out of a Canton jail.

The Purple People Eaters motto was, “meet at the quarterback.”

I’m thinking Norm is feeling more and more like the quarterback. Not a comfortable place to be when facing the Vikes defensive line, led by none other than Justice Page.

Whoever the coach is needs to be canned.
191 hrs & 5 min

buh-bye norm

I like the fact that he was getting his J.D. even as he was tackling Q.B.s.

The big question is how smart would he be if he hadn’t been getting repeatedly concussed in the NFL?

I think the senate should just seat frankin honorably and let coleman proceed while franken is sitting as an honorable senator

I was walking across campus one morning and saw Page coming the other way. He was dressed in the usual Notre Dame outfit, undershirt, madras bermuda shorts and flip-flops, and was carrying two enormous textbooks in each hand. I remember that smile you see in the second picture.

What a great story…great guy. Sorry, Norman.

Page also, on the football field, had both amazing quickness and an keen sense of injustice.

He was often flagged for jumping offsides, when what he had actually done is guess the snap count. I remember once he was flagged against the Lions in old Tiger Stadium. He had a fit and proceeded on the next play to tackle both Greg Landry AND Mel Farr just as the ball was being handed off, big loss.

Still angry, on the next play he sacked Landry for a huge loss.

That, I believe, was the year he was voted the NFL MVP, the first defensive player to win the award.

How cool would it be if Obama was looking to make him the next Byron “Whizzer” White?

He graduated from Canton Central Catholic High School in 1964, received his B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1967,

So, he finished his BA in just three years, while playing football. Hmmmmm.

My brother is a big football fan and says that Page tries to put football behind him. “A way to finance law school”. Back in those days you didn’t have 50 million dollar multi-year contracts, though I’m sure he came out of football pretty well off.

The Vikings finally cut him because he slimmed down after looking at the death rates of retired NFL down linemen. Coaches like linemen to be 30-40 lb. overweight. Page eventually became a jogger and marathon runner.

Awhile back the Vikings had a great but injury-prone runner named Robert Smith who retired unexpectedly early to go to law school. I’ve always wondered if he’d had a chat with Page. Money isn’t worth a whole lot if you can’t walk normally, which is how a lot of players end up.

Smith was also from Ohio (Euclid, not far from Canton) and he went to med school, not law school. He’s an amateur astronomer and has written a book about sports and celebrity.

File this as rumor, but when Wellstone was killed a lot of us wanted Page for Senator. One report is that he wasn’t interested. My theory is that the DFL was afraid to run a black guy. My guess is that no one would know who Coleman is any more if Page had run.

…a good man and a hell of a defensive lineman for the Purple Gang. Funny how he was born in the city that houses the pro football Hall Of Fame (of which he is a member).

As a fellow Notre Dame alum, I’m a little biased toward thinking he’s awesome, but based on his life story, I KNOW he’s awesome! Go Irish!

Alan Page for SCOTUS? Seems like the kind of person we need there.

It would actually be an improvement if linemen were merely 30-40 pounds overweight now. For offensive linemen, it’s more like 100-120 pounds, for defensive linemen 80-100.

It’s a very rare human indeed who can support a weight of 300 pounds, and yet offensive linemen routinely run 320-350.

And I’d love to see a SCOTUS with Alan Page to show Clarence Thomas how it’s done right.

In Page’s era Defensive Tackles were not 300 pounds, nor were Offensive Lineman. They generally weighed about 250-265. Page was always rather light for a Defensive Tackle and teams who did well against him ran right at him.

There was a test of wills between Page & Bud Grant and the latter being the Head Coach won. Though when Page went to the Bears and had his best late career games against the Vikings I’m not sure “winning” is the right term.

As a graduate of the University of Texas Law School in Austin, I must note that Page took some summer courses there back in the early ’70s, too. I recall seeing him down a hall and thinking how big he was. Of course I would never have had the courage to go up and speak to him.

I must say that I’ve always thought it great that one of my childhood heros (his NFL poster held a prominent position on my bedroom wall) has done good.

Furthermore, it appears that he’s done a good job appointing a 3 judge panel that the Rethugs cannot complain about:

MN Progressive Project: Election Contest Panel Well-Balanced

Back in the day, when I played in Junior High and High School we chose our own jersey numbers. I wore two numbers, 88 (Page) and 81 (Eller)